Book Review | Steely Veneer, Private Struggle
I met Susan Sontag only once; it was after a dramatic reading of a translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s Trans-Atlantyk, which I went to hear with a group of friends in 1994....
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Book Review | Princess Schweppessodawasser’s Surprising Romance
Language is failing Beryl Dusinbery. She is 99 years old and having trouble retrieving words. “One minute she has a word, then she hasn’t. Where does it go?...
Book Review | It Happened Here, Too
Around the middle of the afternoon on Saturday, September 22, 1928, Marion Griffiths sent her four-year-old daughter, Barbara, off to find her older brother Bobby...
Book Review | Inheritance
That insight—that culture and identity are not DNA—is one that Dani Shapiro, author of the recently published Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, doesn’t get....
Book Review | Before Heschel Became Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel once towered as America’s foremost Jewish public intellectual. In this hour, he might well be the thinker of the hour....
Book Review | A Jewish Outsider in Paris
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Robert Siegel Review...
Book Review | To Heal the World
Neumann claims that liberal Judaism in America hijacked the Jewish tradition by distorting the concept of tikkun olam to fit their left-leaning and “anti-Israel” politics....
Book Review | Why the Left Left Israel
Vivian Gornick reviews Susie Linfield's The Lions' Den, a book critiquing the Left's stance on Israel through a variety of notable thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, and others. ...
Book Review | JDate for the Dead
Author Geraldine Brooks reviews Nathan Englander's new book, kaddish.com...
Book Review | How Bad Is It?
Robert Siegel Reviews Deborah Lipstadt's new book, Antisemitism, and Mark Weitzmann's Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France....